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I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.
Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.
In 'Top Gear,' everything goes wrong because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits.
I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.
Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'
I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?
It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
I do not make decisions based on emotion, because it is my career and I would like to be more practical when it comes to career.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
Having practical proposals that improve people's economic lives is where it's all about in Ohio, and that's what we're focused on.
I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.
I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.
Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
If you think about the practical difficulties of having a relationship with somebody on the other side of the world, it defies all logic.
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.